Amanda Brown mysteries
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Amanda Brown mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Avon paperback ed.
Description
"A lush novel, rich with tension and intricately woven, believable characters. Myers clearly loves the Congo-and you will love this book. I did! "-Mary Alice Monroe, bestselling author of Last Light over Carolina With The Witch Doctor's Wife, Tamar Myers delves into her personal history as the daughter of Christian missionaries in the Belgian Congo. Rich and alive with the sights and sounds of the continent-as exciting, evocative, charming, and suspenseful...
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Amanda Brown mysteries volume 2
Description
In 1945, an infant left inadvertently to die in the jungles of the Belgian Congo is discovered by a young Bashilele tribesman on a mission to claim the head of an enemy. Recognized as human--despite her pale white skin and strange blue eyes--the baby is brought into the tribe and raised as its own. Young missionary Amanda Brown hears the incredible stories of a white girl living among the Bashilele headhunters. In the company of the local police chief,...
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Amanda Brown mysteries volume 3
Description
Like Alexander McCall Smith's ever-popular No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels, The Boy Who Stole the Leopard's Spots immerses readers in a breathtaking African landscape they simply will not wish to leave. For the third time, author Tamar Myers carries readers a world away from Charleston, South Carolina, and her Den of Antiquity cozy mysteries-circling the globe to the Belgian Congo in equatorial Africa in the 1950s. The Boy Who Stole the Leopard's...
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Amanda Brown mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Description
When Julia Elaine Newton, a young, pretty Ohio girl, volunteered to go on a mission to the Belgian Congo, she knew it was going to be a huge change. But she never expected to wind up teaching at an all-girls boarding school that consisted mostly of runaway child brides!